English: This image shows the sizes and locations within the Hubble Legacy Field of the two areas that Hubble first studied in this region, the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) and the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), along with the deepest image ever taken by Hubble, the eXtreme Deep Field (XDF).
The Hubble Legacy Field is one of the widest views ever taken of the universe with Hubble. Astronomers assembled the image from 16 years' worth of Hubble observations. The Hubble Legacy Field image combines many Hubble field surveys, including the iconic original HUDF and the first wide-field GOODS, as well as the XDF.
The image's wavelength range stretches from ultraviolet to near-infrared light, capturing all the features of galaxy assembly over time. The wide view contains about 30 times as many galaxies as in the HUDF. The new portrait, a mosaic of 7,500 exposures, covers almost the width of the full Moon.
NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth and D. Magee (University of California, Santa Cruz), K. Whitaker (University of Connecticut), R. Bouwens (Leiden University), P. Oesch (University of Geneva), and the Hubble Legacy Field team
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Hubble Assembles Wide View of Evolving Universe
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NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth and D. Magee (University of California, Santa Cruz), K. Whitaker (University of Connecticut), R. Bouwens (Leiden University), P. Oesch (University of Geneva,) and the Hubble Legacy Field team
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Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach
Short title
Hubble Assembles Wide View of Evolving Universe
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This Hubble Space Telescope image represents the largest, most comprehensive "history book" of galaxies in the universe.The image, a combination of nearly 7,500 separate Hubble exposures, represents 16 years' worth of observations.The ambitious endeavor, called the Hubble Legacy Field, includes several Hubble deep-field surveys, including the eXtreme Deep Field (XDF), the deepest view of the universe. The wavelength range stretches from ultraviolet to near-infrared light, capturing all the features of galaxy assembly over time.The image mosaic presents a wide portrait of the distant universe and contains roughly 265,000 galaxies. They stretch back through 13.3 billion years of time to just 500 million years after the universe's birth in the big bang. The tiny, faint, most distant galaxies in the image are similar to the seedling villages from which today's great galaxy star-cities grew. The faintest and farthest galaxies are just one ten-billionth the brightness of what the human eye can see.The wider view contains 100 times as many galaxies as in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, taken in 2004. The new portrait, a mosaic of multiple snapshots, covers almost the width of the full Moon. Lying in this region is the XDF, which penetrated deeper into space than this legacy field view. However, the XDF field covers less than one-tenth of the full Moon's diameter.